Fruit-drier



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242,122; Patented May 31,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

, WILLIAM G. FLANDERS, OF LANSINGBURG, NEW YORK.

FRUlT-DRI ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,122, dated May 31, 1881.

Application filed January 12, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that-I, WILLIAM G. FLANDEns, 0t" Lansingburg, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fruit-Driers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an apparatus for rapidly drying fruit, vegetables, grain, feed, or other substances by artificial heat, so as to thoroughly dissipate therefrom all the moisture or aqueous parts without liability of burning or crisping the same; and it consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the several parts of the apparatus, as hereinafter more fully described and set forth.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 represents an elevation of one end. Fig. 3 represents a sectional elevation of the opposite end. Fig. 4 represents a vertical section of the steam-dryin g apparatus. Fig. 5 represents a horizontal section of the steam-escape pipe, and is drawn to an enlarged scale.

A represents the heater or boiler, constructed of any suitable form or size tobe placed upon a stove or furnace, and its top forms a support for holding fruit or other articles to be dried.

Above the heater A is a series of hollow receptacles, B B, elevated one above the other, and connected and held in place by the vertical ends 0 O, to which the said hollow receptacles are secured by solder or in any other suitable manner/r The top interior portion of the steam boiler or heater A is connected with the first elevated hollow receptacle B by a steam-pipe, D, which carries the steam generated in the boiler upward into the end of the said hollow receptacle B, and thence horizontally through the same to its opposite end, where it enters the vertical.steam-conductin g pipe E, which connects with the interior of the next hollow receptacle B above, and passes through it in like manner to other receptacles, located above each other as may he desired, where it passes outward from the top receptacle through the spring pressure-valve F in the tube H and strikes the horizontal partition G, which prevents the water of condensation from being thrown out of the top of the vertical tube H with the steam which passes through the small openings t, formed in the said partition G, and then escapes through the said tube H, the water of condensation passing downward through the oblique pipe I, which connects with the water-supply pipe J, which connects with the interior of the boiler A near its bottom, and through which the same is filled or replenished by unscrewing the cap K from the upper end thereof.

The height of the water in the boiler A can be observed through the transparent mica indicator L, (shown in Fig. 2,) and the water may be drawn 05 from the same through cock M whenever desired.

The receptacles B are each connected with the vertical pipe N, which has an opening near the bottom of the interior of the boiler, so as to permit the water from the condensation of the steamwithiu the hollow receptacles to pass back into the boiler.

P represents detached or removable pans provided with elevated bottoms T, which, beingplaced upon the top of the receptacles B, form a hollow hot-air space between the top of the stationary receptacles B and the removable pans P, so as to dry the material placed in said removable pans, and permit them to be removed therefrom with their dried contents and other pans substituted containing an undried quantity of material, whereby the drier may be kept in constant operation as long as desired.

It will be observed that the hollow receptacles are provided with stay-bolts It, to prevent bulging, or they may be strengthened internally by stay-pieces S, soldered to the interior or between the double bottoms, or secured in any suitable manner desired.

By means of the spring-valve F the pressure of the steam may be regulated, as desired, to insure the greatest economy in the drying or desiccatin g of the material placed in the drier, as above described.

Having thus described my invention, what I. claim is- 1. In combination with the boiler A and series of elevated hollow stationary drying-receptacles B, connected by steampipes D E,

the spring steam-pressure valve F and tube H, having the horizontal check-partition G, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In combination with the boiler A and ele- 5 vated hollow receptacle B, connected by pipe D, the spring-valve I and pipes H, I, and J, constructed and arranged substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

3. In combination with the boiler A and 10 hollow receptacle B, connected by steam-passages, the removable pans P, having elevated bottoms R, whereby an air-space is formed between the bottoms of the said receptacle B and the pan P when placed together, substantially as shown and described, and for the purposes I5 set forth.

4. The combination of the boiler A, the series of receptacles B, the spring-valve F, and pipes D, H, I, J, and N, all being constructed and arranged to operate substantially as (le- 20 scribed, as and for the purposes set forth.

\VILLIAM G. FLANDERS.

Witnesses:

JosEPH B. ARNOHL, Jr., JONATHAN P. CREED. 

